Impatiently Awaiting, Death

Life for Ed had always been routine. He becomes aware of his surroundings, suffers horribly, then dies. Seems terrible for me and you, but for Ed, it is all he has ever known. For Centuries, he has repeated the cycle of life and death. He calls himself a Re-Encarnater. His entire purpose for existing is to die, always as someone else, then start again. He can recall each and every one of his deaths with vivid clarity.However, something's gone wrong. Terribly wrong, and he now finds himself unable to die. Immortality may sound wonderful, but for Ed, it is a curse. And the only way to lift the curse, is to remember what it was he's done in the past to tip the scales against him, and set them right.To make matters worse, he is currently occupying the body of a 98 year old man living in a nursing home. He has no knowledge of this person's history or family, and unless he can figure out what he did wrong, he will be stuck in this body forever. There is just one he has found he can trust to help, a night worker named Francis, who struggles with the possibility that what Ed says may be the truth.